[App Fridays] food:habits – an app to keep your weight in check. Will it?
In the popular kids show, Chotta Bheem, he’s known to devour scores of laddoos. It was also his source of super power. But as he grew up, I wonder if he too would have started to worry about the...
View ArticlePresenting the eSparks 2013- Top 12 eCommerce Companies from India
eSparks 2013, a YourStory.in initiative is the premier showcase for e-Commerce companies in India. We have picked up the best 11 companies from more than 350 companies that had applied to become an...
View Article[Jobs Roundup] Wishberry, Stork, Exit10 and many more are looking to hire
The upcoming trends in the Indian startup scene seem to be revolving around ecommerce, and mobile. With a great demand for marketers, and developers across various platforms, it seems everyone is...
View ArticlePhoto Highlights from eSparks 2013
eSparks 2013, a YourStory.in inititative is India’s premier eCommerce showcase. Organized on the 16th of February at Hotel Royal Orchid in Bangalore, 12 of the best eCommerce companies from India...
View ArticleIt’s Humour, App-arently!
Sundays, even for entrepreneurs who seldom take a break, are days when you don’t mind giving the brain a little bit of rest. We had an amazing event yesterday in the form of eSparks 2013 where 12 of...
View ArticleA Disruptive talk by Ravi Gururaj on eCommerce Opportunities in India
Ravi Gururaj is the VP Products at Citrix and is the co-founder at Harvard Business School Alumni Angels India One of the clear highlights of eSparks 2013 was the session by Ravi Gururaj. What can you...
View Article[Exclusive] Vellvette, a beauty products subscription commerce startup...
Vellvette is subscription based eCommerce company dealing with beauty products targeted only towards females in India. Conceived in March 2012 and put into action in September, Vellvette is based out...
View ArticleCalling India’s Most Innovative Companies To Work With The Best of UK
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) India in association with British Airways and YourStory.in is happy to announce the launch of the contest to discover India’s most innovative companies who are looking...
View ArticleThe Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Trap
Before your read this post, I suggest you go over to Hacker Street India and glance through this thread – How much time it took for the first version (MVP) of your product! If you don’t know much...
View ArticleIndia Deal Digest 17/02/2013 – Seedfund acquires minority stake in gifting...
Since valentines day, the deal space in India has seen some significant activity. Covering a large spectrum with respect to the kind of deals that happened, we saw VC firms raising funds, governments...
View ArticleLessons for entrepreneurs from Chumbak — an ‘attractive’ Indian venture
Whenever Vivek Prabhakar, founder of Chumbak, would travel around the country, he would always look for small gifts to bring back for friends and family. During these trips he began to realize that...
View ArticleYourStory To Host ‘Geeks on a Plane’ in Bangalore on February 21
You must have heard of exchange programs and knowledge sharing, but get ready to do it the startup way. YourStory.in presents to you the Geeks on a Plane. Sounds interesting, right? They are! Geeks on...
View ArticleNumbers and insights from comScore on the Indian eCommerce Industry
In this day and age of information where data is king, opinions and feelings have no place if data disagrees with them. Because data is absolute. On Saturday, February 16, at YourStory.in’s eSparks...
View ArticleMandar Naik, Microsoft on How Cloud can Help eCommerce Business?
The second session at the eSparks event on Saturday was on Cloud Strategy for eCommerce ventures by Mandar Naik, director, Open Source Strategy at Microsoft. Microsoft’s ambition of world domination...
View ArticleDineout six months on – rapid growth and YourStory.in’s first WebSpark
Dineout is one of those stories where a startup, after funding, has hunkered down and got the work done. In a short span of six months, this web based restaurant table reservation and deals service...
View ArticleUnderstanding Employee Stock Option Plans (ESOP’s)
ESOP’s are Employee Stock Option Plans under which employees receive the right to purchase a certain number of shares in the company at a predetermined price, as a reward for their performance and...
View ArticleStartup Cashkaro: From UK to India, testing the cashback waters worldwide
Ask any eCommerce entrepreneur and a common woe that all have is the changing and price sensitive Indian consumer. The average online shopper today has also become smart and there are many online...
View ArticleTop 5 Mistakes Product Managers Make (and how to avoid them)
Building a product is a complicated process, and it is easy to get overwhelmed in the process of dealing with requirements, users, use cases, UI/UX, launch and marketing, feedback and iteration and...
View ArticleAre brands being held at ransom by Social Media Influencers?
Social media presence has come to prominence off late and we’ve seen a lot of emphasis being laid on how social media can be leveraged. The person who has mastered the art of engaging on social media...
View Article[Book Review] Manager’s Guide to Mentoring
by Curtis J. Crawford 14 chapters; 187 pages 2009 McGraw-Hill (Amazon) Mentoring, coaching, advising and consulting are important parts of the business and entrepreneurship ecosystem. “Manager’s Guide...
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